Chill 17-18
Chapter 17: Sweet, sweet misery.
"I gotta go...' I said, hanging my head, and Gerard nodded
"Ya know I gotta walk you home now, right?" he said, and I nodded
"Pfft, don't make it sound like such a chore, man." I reply, and he ruffles my hair
"So, " I asked while we were walking
"What does one do for 100 fucking years?"
he shrugged, "I've been around, y'know? During the 70's I did this thing where I was only hunting club people, they called me the "westbrook slasher"
but that was back in westbrook, obviously..." he snickered scratching the back of his neck
"Basically I just fuck around a lot, drugs, drinking, smoking, painting, -"
"You paint?" I asked and he shrugged
"I try," he corrected
"Anyway, I sleep during the day, that's like...5-6:30, sometimes later...so mostly I just, y'know..."
"Hunt" I finished,
"Yea," he said, one side of his lips raised slightly higher than the other
We finally got to the apartment, and I kissed Gerard, and he slapped my ass and whistled playfully while I shot daggers at him through my eyes
trying as hard as I could not to laugh,
I open the door and see Nick standing in front of the Tv...
"Who is he?"
shit
shit
shit
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(GPOV)
Every night, after saying goodbye to Frank,
The hunger came back...the hunger that around Frank, I had taught myself to supress...
but it was back, the worst pain I had ever felt, like a dozen daggers trying to escape my stomach,
I took long, deep breaths, walking through the pain, looking desperately for someboody-- anybody...
I looked down at my watch-
11:23, fuck...
fucking, curfew fuck.
Finally, I saw her...
she must of been a little under 50, purse in hand walking through the streets as if they were breakable,
staring around herself, scared.
And rightfully so,
I hid behind the fence, waiting for her to get closer, closer,
but then all I heard was a loud, nauseating *Crack*
I looked over and the lady was on the floor-dead
meaning her blood was going cold and drinking it would kill me...
I looked around me, barely able to stand due to the pain, I knew it was her...
I knew she was somewhere...
and then I heard footsteps, quick and gentle and a painful humming noise,
she looked at me and giggled
"Hello, dear." she spat and I gulped, furrowing my eyebrows
I stood up straight, ignoring the pain as it had been replaced by rage
and I just looked at her, watched her as her long black hair danced in the wind
she walked towards me
"Oh sweetheart..." she breathed
"You look so stressed..."
"Why are you still after me?" I barked
"Why can't you just go on and fuck yourself? huh? You've already killed me once,"
"Because you've taken everything from me, Gerard..."
"I'm not the one that did this, I'm...I'm not the one that turned you"
"You are such an asshole" she spat
"Like you ever gave a fuck about what happened to me, you were going to leave me...I know that, whether or not *this* happened."
I looked anywhere but at her, she cleared her throat
"And anyway, that's not the point. and I know you're dead, you have no heartbeat, you're skin is cold as ice...
but that boy...that's what he is a fucking little, clingy, boy...he's brought you back to life, made you happy..."
She scoffed angrily,
"Happy, you had enough happiness when you were alive,"
"Now it's my turn...and the only thing that would make me happy is to see you completely devastated every day of your miserable existance."
"I'll stop seeing him." I said, grabbing her by the wrist
"Okay, I'll go back to being miserable, alone."
"Knowing that Frank Is still alive and well? No, you wouldn't be miserable, you'd be proud...proud that you saved him...
Oh no, he has to die."
Just then I pounced her, holding her down by her small, scrawny neck
"He's done nothing!" I growled, closing my grip around her,
but then she faded away, and I was kicked to the ground- she laughed again
"Then what else...what else would make you miserable Gerard? Maybe if you gave a fuck about anything but sex you'd be able to come up with a substitute."
"Maybe you could marry me again? That made me pretty damn miserable."
She nearly exploded at that,
"And you already took Eric...you know? I- I've had to live with that, with his face...his screaming every fucking second...isn't that enough?"
as I whined I felt a tear run down my cheek and I looked at her, so much evil so much hate...
"No." she said, simply and then she dissapeared,
and I smashed my fists against the fence so hard that it bent,
A cop came around the corner and I slashed his throat with my finger, sucking him dry
I wiped my mouth and now, rejuvenated I needed to do something-
anything.
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(FPOV)
"Hmm?" I asked, playing stupid "Who's who?"
Nick scoffed, and I bit my lip, looking away from him "You tell me; you're gone every goddamn night, coming back with that stupid smirk on your face and your
stupid fucked up hair...that you don't seem to be trying to even fix..."
"I have a friend." I replied, and he cocked and eyebrow "A friend?" he asked, and I nodded "Do you think I'm dumb?"
I gulped, "No." I said, "I think that..." I brought my palms to my face, and sighed -Nick turned away "I saw you two outside. I saw you kiss him"
I lowered my hands "You...you did?" I asked, and he nodded I moved towards him "Fuck...I-it's complicated." I said and he scoffed
"Isn't it always..."
"no...no, please Nick...I love you, okay." he turned around then and I could see that he had started to cry
"no, no, don't...don't cry...believe me...please,"
This is what i had been afraid, this is what I didn't want... I began to cry too
"Can I please...please just explain?"
"Explain what? That he was nice to you and it was just a one night thing? Or something assinine like that?" he snarled, and I shook my head
"Wou-would you believe he's a vampire?"
and with that he began to walk away
"No! No Nick! Please, just listen to me..."
but he just closed the door, and I was lost.
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Chapter 18: Hold your breath, kid
"Nick please!" I whined
"You can't do this, let me just talk to you!"I said, tapping at the door like a forgotten puppy "Nick!!" I yelled and finally, the door unlocked
"You have 20 seconds to tell me exactly what the fuck has been happening."
"You mean...starting now?"
"Now."
"Right Now?" I asked,and he groaned
"Whenever you start talking..."
"Okay, well one night a little while back he-he attacked me and to get away I kissed him and then he kept showing up, and we slept together
but now, well...he has an ex wife, who wants to kill me, just like she killed his ex boyfriend who he was cheating on her with and..."
"5 more seconds"
"And he's a vampire."
His face sank, and I bit my lip grabbing at his shirt "what am I to you?" he asked, and I gulped
"You're every hope, and every dream I've ever had." I said, honestly and he sighed "And what's he?"
"The opposite." I said, honestly... that's when I stopped and looked at him "But you still love him..." he gulped, and I hugged him
"That's the thing... I love you both..." I said, and he broke away from me
Just then there was a knocking at the door, well more like a slamming
"You fucking idiot" he yelled, and my eyes nearly popped straight out of my head
Gerard was holding me by my collar, head buried in my chest standing in my house
right in front of Nick...
"You're such an idiot..." he said, and Nick was just staring at us
"What the fuck?!" he exclaimed, and I pointed at Gerard "This is the vampire" Nick's eyes widened
"The guy you're fucking?" he said, and Gerard turned to him "There's something so much more important going on here, ya know." he said,
blood was still fresh in his mouth, and Nick just stared at us
"Remember when Frank here was telling you about that evil chick?" Nick nodded "Well, she's real..." he then ran to the windows and locked them
"Not another one..." Nick sighed, and I couldn't help but smirk at the complete surrealness of the situation
Gerard then closed the front door too, locking it and covering the little peephole at the top with a piece of the gum he was chewing...
or at least I hoped it was gum...
I just watched and Nick turned to me, I looked down
he walked towards me "can you please, please tell me what's going on...? Actually?"
"Actually? Um, well Gerard-his names Gerard by the way remember his ex-wife, and how she's going to kill us...."
"Frank, please!"
Gerard then came in between us, giving me a hammer, "Believe him, grab something...and nail it to the wall, okay?"
Nick then looked at me and then at Gerard, and hung his head he then sighed, and looked back up at me
"Can you pass me the hammer?"
The two of them worked in silence as I watched...they were both mad at me right now, and...well, rightfully so. I was mad at me.
but I don't know...I was kind of relieved in a way...they're both safe, and alive...and here. and Goddammit, I am so God's least favorite guy right now...
Finally, every single crack in the wall was covered by anything from book covers, to dvd jackets, to pieces of our once-was-a-closet-door
and then, silence.
Gerard left one hole open in the middle of the window and he just looked out of it... Nick held his hammer and stared at the floor
"If I just destroyed my apartment because you two are insane, this hammers going through your skulls."
Gerard scoffed
"I'd like to see you try..."
"Gerard." I said, "not now."
"You've been fucking my boyfriend..." he said, and Gerard laughed
"Long story, you see...I tried to murder him...when he kissed me it was a self defence thing,"
Nick shook his head
"Right, you're a vampire..." Nick threw his arms up in disbelief "I just destroyed my apartment...for a motherfucking "vampire"..."
"Nick-" I started but Gerard brought his hand over my mouth
"You, you're not allowed to talk right now... if you had just let me be alone, and miserable we'd be okay..."
I scoffed and he shushed me again
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It was quiet for probably the next...20 minutes, Gerard looked like the guy from the shining, eyes wide, and clutching onto his hammer tightly
"So, is she going to kill us tonight? Or am I going to have to sit through this even longer?" Nick asked, and Gerard looked at him as if he were the devil himself
Gerard then got up and looked at me
"Does he still not believe me?"
I pointed to my closed mouth and he rolled his eyes "Look, this bitch has been after Frank for a long time now,"
I could see his face change slightly, like a wave of sadness came over him
"And we gotta, " he looked at me again "We gotta make sure nothing happens." Nick sighed, and Gerard opened his mouth to speak again "Now...now, I don' want you to
get hurt or whatever, so... you can leave, if you want."
Nick nodded, considering this, "because, this isn't any of your problem..." Gerard finished, staring blankly at nothing
"Yea it is." Nick said, looking straight at me, "Cause...at least for tonight...he's still my fiance."
I lowered my head, and gulped...maybe Carol should just kill me... Gerard nodded "Okay...but like, if you don't believe me that means you're not understanding the severity -"
"I understand." Nick said, "But, like...can I see your teeth? Just to make sure?"
Gerard opened his mouth, and Nick watched in awe as he bared his teeth, as they sank out of his gums, and then he growled
"You good?" he then asked, and Nick gulped "Su-sure..."
"Frank?" Gerard then said, looking at me, "You can speak again."
I smiled weakly at him, "Thanks."
I then looked at Nick, but he wouldn't look me in the eye...
Gerard looked back at me, and then at him and bit the inside of his cheek he muttered something like "babies" under his breath and then walked back to his 'post' at the window
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(Gpov)
It was only now that I realized I had gone soft... In earlier days, I woulda killed Frank myself...fuck, God knows he's given me reason too, I smirked
but, there was somehting...something in him that I just don't think I can let go of, some sort of innocence, some sort of understanding in him,
I sighed to myself, and continued looking out the window... feeling something in my long ago dead heart,
She was right...
Frank had given me life, in some non-literal sense... he was my life.
I looked back at him, half asleep taking sips of coffee trying to stay up with me...I couldn't be soft anymore, I couldn't be afraid
I had to destroy her. I had too,
But she was stronger, I was just her fledgling, nothing more than that. She was the real deal, but I had to...I had to do it.
I ripped the boards off of the window as the other two just stared at me
I would fight her to the death, to the fucking end...and then, well if she killed me Frank would get to live.
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(Fpov)
Gerard walked up to me, the sky was purple now, it was 5:30am,
"She can't come during the day..." he said, "She'd die. But um, I'm gonna I'm gonna sleep in the bathtub, okay? It seems to have the least amount of light"
I nodded
"What if I have to pee."
"I won't notice, and it's not like I haven't seen it before," he joked, and I smiled goofily
Just then Nick started to wake up and I whined "He'll probably kill me first, y'know." I said, and Gerard smirked pinching my cheek
"Good...night? then?" I asked, and he smirked again
"Yea...'night' Frank."
I watched him as he walked into the bathroom, he lay down in the bath tub and covered himself with several blankets and then closed the shower screen
and I closed my eyes, the daytime was safe...
the daytime was safe...
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